Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/17/19:43:18
I used to use Cygwin a long time ago and am now coming back to it.
My setup:
* Dell Precision Workstation 370
* MS-Windows XP Pro v5.1.2600
Step 1: Install Cygwin
* I used setup.exe to first download all of Cygwin to my local hard
drive. I do this so that, if I install it a few times, I don't have to hit
the Internet after the first time. Somewhat faster.
* After downloading everything, I used setup.exe to install the
Default. A couple of times, this gave me errors in the postinstall steps
about some DLL, but it didn't repeat consistently, so...
* After I installed, I brought up Bash and got the usual message about
/etc/passwd & /etc/group. I used mkpasswd and mkgroup to fill them in.
* "Default" (I believe) doesn't install MAN pages or editors, so
figuring out what mkpasswd/mkgroup did and/or adjusting it is kind of
difficult. This should be fixed or documented better.
Step 2: Get an X server working
* "Default" doesn't install any X, so I reran setup.exe to do an "All"
install (I have room). This got me a "Cygwin/X" menu in the Start menu list,
but didn't provide any obvious way of starting an X server.
* Suggestion: Have setup.exe add an icon for "startxwin.bat" to the
Desktop. I manually did that.
* Double-clicking startxwin.bat brings up an X server and xterm with
the root window hidden. Xclock also seems to work properly.
Step 3: Get an editor running
* Starting "emacs" from the xterm window brings up emacs, but it
immediately crashes when you try to do anything in it.
* Starting "xemacs" from the xterm window seems a little better as you
can do things in it, but it crashes when you try to exit from XEmacs.
* I then did an "xhost +" to disable access control.
* Running "emacs" from an RHEL3 system with the display pointed at my
Cygwin system brought up a window, but immediately crashed.
* Running "xemacs" from the RHEL3 system with the display pointed to my
Cygwin system worked much better and seemed normal (most times!). I tested
this a few times and XEmacs did crash once.
So what's wrong with the X server in Cygwin? Since I'm just getting going, I
posted this to the cygwin mailing list -- later I may move to the
cygwin-xfree mailing list.
David Masterson
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